Pan Fantasy steel orchestra celebrates 36 years of music with “Pannies’’ gala and awards

Pan Fantasy steel orchestra celebrates 36 years of music with “Pannies’’ gala and awards

By Lincoln DePradine Many know Dwight Drummond as a Canadian broadcast journalist, who now anchors the 8 pm nationwide news on the CBC News Network.  But before launching his media career, which now spans three decades, Drummond was one of several youngsters participating in programs of Pan Fantasy Steelband North York Inter-Community Youth Group (NYICYG). […]

Program to create access and opportunities for racialized interior designers

Program to create access and opportunities for racialized interior designers

JennAir Disrupting Design collaborates with The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to create $375,000 scholarship fund On Tuesday, the JennAir Brand (“JennAir”) announced the launch of its Disrupting Design program, which aims to create access and opportunities for racialized interior designers in the industry. The program is the result of research, listening and […]

Impact Awards to be presented on November 20

Impact Awards to be presented on November 20

Eight individuals and two organizations from Toronto’s Caribbean community will be the recipients of the Caribbean/Black Impact Awards 2022. The awards will be presented at the Ontario Science Centre on November 20. The Caribbean Camera and the Black Indigenous Business Development Association (BIBDA) have organized the awards ceremony to celebrate the achievements of outstanding Caribbean […]

Looking for the remains of Black Loyalists

Looking for the remains of Black Loyalists

Ground-penetrating radar technology is being used to find the unmarked graves of Black Loyalists at the Fort Anne National Historic Site in Annapolis Royal, N.S. Black Loyalists supported the British during the American Revolutionary War beginning in 1775. Thousands of them settled in Nova Scotia. The search for their graves took place at Fort Anne’s […]

Black couple suing Swoop Airlines for racial discrimination

Black couple suing Swoop Airlines for racial discrimination

A couple from Kelowna, B.C., who were escorted off their flight from Toronto in August have filed a lawsuit against Swoop Airlines and two of its employees, alleging racial discrimination and defamation. Andre Henry and Jhody Batiste, who are Black, claimed they’re “living a nightmare of an embarrassment” after being removed from the plane over […]

Turks and Caicos Islands scores high in Readers’ Choice Awards

Turks and Caicos Islands scores high in Readers’ Choice Awards

  Condé Nast Traveler recently released the results of its annual Readers’ Choice Awards, with the Turks and Caicos Islands being voted the #3 Island in The Caribbean and The Atlantic with a rating of 87.98 – only 2.47 behind this year’s winner. Over 240,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers rated their travel experiences across the […]

Canadian Medical Association Journal focuses on anti-Black racism in next two issues

Canadian Medical Association Journal focuses on anti-Black racism in next two issues

Equitable cancer care for Black patients, medical schools’ responses to anti-Black racism, mental health of Black youth and gaslighting in academic medicine are some of the topics in two anti-Black racism in health care issues of CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to be published October 24 and October 31, 2022. Anti-Black racism is a threat […]

Education Minister Stephen Lecce unveils $365 million “Plan to Catch Up’’  

Education Minister Stephen Lecce unveils $365 million “Plan to Catch Up’’  

By Lincoln DePradine As a dispute continues between the Ontario government and education workers, the ruling Conservatives say their focus remains on students and parents. “We’re supporting parents, we’re supporting kids,’’ education minister Stephen Lecce told reporters representing community media at a news conference last Friday. It was convened to address the latest initiatives, amounting […]

Denham Jolly finally presented with the Order of Canada medal

Denham Jolly finally presented with the Order of Canada medal

  Jolly was named to the Order in November 2020 At the first In Person investiture ceremony since Covid, Governor General Mary Simon invested 42 appointees into the Order of Canada at Rideau Hall, Ottawa Thursday October 20, 2022. Among them was well known Jamaican-Canadian businessman Denham Jolly. The Order of Canada is one of […]

Wes Hall from abusive childhood to leading Canadian businessman

Wes Hall from abusive childhood to leading Canadian businessman

When he was 12 years old and still living in Jamaica, Wes Hall remembers his mother beating him so badly in public that a passing one-legged man tried to intervene. “He said to my mom, ‘You should stop beating that boy. One day that boy could be the one that you rely on to look […]